His horse will face five rivals in her first start in two months after winning the Grade II Black-Eyed Susan at Pimlico on May 16.

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Javier Castellano will get the mount again on Stopchargingmaria, a daughter of Tale of the Cat out of Exotic Bloom, who will break from post No. 1 in the Coaching Club.

"I'm really, really pleased with the way she's been training up to the Coaching Club," Pletcher said. "She seems to really enjoy Saratoga."

Pletcher moved her from Florida back to Saratoga after a pair of lackluster starts over the winter and spring. Stopchargingmaria came in fifth in the Grade II Davona Dale at Gulfstream on Feb. 22 followed by a fourth in the Grade III Fantasy at Oaklawn Park on April 5.

"When I spoke to Todd, he said that (when) she went down to Florida, she didn't seem like the same filly she was last year," Repole said. "She ran two bad races, we shipped her up here, and she started training and feeling better. She liked working at Saratoga."

She's also preferred racing at the Spa. Stopchargingmaria broke her maiden here last summer before coming in second in the Grade I Spinaway behind Sweet Reason.

"So she's got a huge advantage of being stabled out here since Todd came out here in April," Repole said. "So she's been on the grounds for about three months now ... She loves it up here."

She's 2-for-2 at the nine-furlong distance of the Coaching Club with wins in the Demoiselle at Aqueduct and the Black-Eyed Susan.

Repole, who purchased the filly for $220,000 at the Ocala 2-year-old sale in March 2013, named Stopchargingmaria as a way of teasing his wife, Maria.

Repole has also owned fillies named Stopspendingmaria and Stopshoppingmaria.

"I do it in jest, but it seems like when (his wife's) horse runs, she wants to know what the purse is and somehow thinks that if her horse wins, she gets to spend that money," Repole said.

The second choice in the Coaching Club is 9-5 Unbridled Forever, who has finished third in three consecutive graded stakes.

In her most recent start, Unbridled Forever had a mild rally to finish 41/2 lengths behind winner Sweet Reason in the Acorn.

"She has done well since the Acorn," Unbridled Forever's trainer Dallas Stewart said. "She's easy to train, and the distance shouldn't be a problem."